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Anti-Jewish
legislation in Slovakia, Germany’s ally and patron state, gathered
much momentum in 1941. Jews were required to wear the Jewish Badge
and perform forced labor. Construction of labor camps for Jews began
in the autumn. An order for the banishment of 10,000 of the 15,000
Jews in Bratislava to several peripheral towns and labor camps was
issued in September and implemented in October. In a statement to
the German Foreign Office of October 22, 1941, concerning the
deportations to the peripheral towns, the German Ambassador to
Slovakia, Hans Ludin, noted that the action had followed the example
of the ghettos in the Generalgouvernement and took place with
the encouragement of the German advisor on Jewish affairs, Dieter
Wisliceny. |
